1. Saving the session using the "save" icon on the desktop takes a very long time to save the session, indeed I shut down to make sure it has saved the changes, but when shutting down it says the session has been already saved.

The first time you quit and reboot you will get an opportunity to save
your data and settings.

After that the pupsave file is automatically updated on-the-fly.
So there is nothing to worry about and no need to keep clicking on
'Save' icon.

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2. Trying to either do a frugal and full install failed

Frugal installs are quickly created by dragging 3 (or sometimes 4) files
into a newly created folder. I personally do my dragging from
the downloaded ISO which I have opened in the desktop.

The grub4dos program is a good way to update
your grub's 'menu.lst'

A full install must be made with Barry Kauler's installer program
which is available from Start Menu. You just need a partition
that is formatted previously to ext2 ext3 or ext4 format
and have the ISO available to be used by program.
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For sound type 'retrovol' in terminal and try various settings.

Also try installing audacious audio player and audacity sound editor
and see if they play a file.

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About abiword. I wont use my time to improve it. I don't use it. For me it is Libre Office sfs. Period. I just use brilliant get libre office pet and update my version at infrequent intervals. I include abiword so that people don't have to ask how to get in to the build. But if someone wants to improve its abilities with packages and extra features...go ahead. I am willing to include them. (...)

I understand that abiword is somewhat of a stopgap if one relies on LibreOffice for writing and other professional work. I am myself a regular user of OpenOffice.

However, abiword can still be useful for quick work, and the light user or occasional writer might as well have a fuller abiword package to enhance his/her overall experience.

It should be noted that these plugins greatly augment the importation and reading capacity of abiword, with only approx. 4.5 Mb overhead, instead of the hundreds of Mb required to do much of the same with the OpenOffice | LibreOffice packages.

Finally, people should bear in mind that these abiword-2.9.2 plugins were tested as working under RaringPup, but remain untested in other Puppies.

1. Saving the session using the "save" icon on the desktop takes a very long time to save the session, indeed I shut down to make sure it has saved the changes, but when shutting down it says the session has been already saved.

The first time you quit and reboot you will get an opportunity to save
your data and settings.

After that the pupsave file is automatically updated on-the-fly.
So there is nothing to worry about and no need to keep clicking on
'Save' icon.

Actually I know this, but I try to keep backup of my works and it very frequently happens that I change something and am afraid to loose it or break it again before my next reboot, and neither like to reboot at the time, so I prefer to use that "save" icon. After all, those who have designed that capability were thinking different than you ! It was working on Raring 3.8.4.2 but then I upgraded my save-file to 3.8.7 and now it doesn't work. The yellow message that says the request to save the current session is queued doesn't disappear and notification that saving is under performance is not shown as well. However, as once I told you seemingly it really saves as once I rebooted and it said it has been already saved! Maybe a bug due to save file upgrade?

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2. Trying to either do a frugal and full install failed

Frugal installs are quickly created by dragging 3 (or sometimes 4) files
into a newly created folder. I personally do my dragging from
the downloaded ISO which I have opened in the desktop.

The grub4dos program is a good way to update
your grub's 'menu.lst'

A full install must be made with Barry Kauler's installer program
which is available from Start Menu. You just need a partition
that is formatted previously to ext2 ext3 or ext4 format
and have the ISO available to be used by program.

Yes, but I meant frugal/full installation through the Puppy Universal Installer. Both failed for me after upgrade to 3.8.7 and I had checked that in 3.8.4.2 only about frugal installation that it worked but somewhat buggy, if I'm not wrong.

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For sound type 'retrovol' in terminal and try various settings.

Also try installing audacious audio player and audacity sound editor
and see if they play a file.

None worked but thanks for introducing to me the retrovol, my speaker's sound was low and I didn't know I can increase it that much! Oh, let me add that Raring plays every format of audio and video file that i have, cool, it only gives error for that single application with an embedding player (the application still plays sound with gnome-mplayer but some facilities of its own player is missing then) and my guest virtual distro also has no sound, this one is somewhat a nail in the shoes.

You are in 'detached HEAD' state. You can look around, make experimental
changes and commit them, and you can discard any commits you make in this
state without impacting any branches by performing another checkout.

If you want to create a new branch to retain commits you create, you may
do so (now or later) by using -b with the checkout command again. Example:

git checkout -b new_branch_name

HEAD is now at e160336... aufs3.9 20130506

..and 3.9.1 is released less than an hour ago..._________________Woof Mailing List | keep the faith |

You are in 'detached HEAD' state. You can look around, make experimental
changes and commit them, and you can discard any commits you make in this
state without impacting any branches by performing another checkout.

If you want to create a new branch to retain commits you create, you may
do so (now or later) by using -b with the checkout command again. Example:

For the record, a simple remaster worked perfectly. I deleted the seamonkey folder,
and installed Firefox 20. Installed Sylpheed 3.3 from the repo. Also have Pan and
Xfreecell installed (from Lucid pets). It also has gnome-mplayer 1.08. The remaster is
over 5 meg smaller than the original.

...a simple remaster worked perfectly. I deleted the seamonkey folder,
and installed Firefox 20. Installed Sylpheed 3.3 from the repo. Also have Pan and
Xfreecell installed (from Lucid pets). It also has gnome-mplayer 1.08. The remaster is
over 5 meg smaller than the original.

This is most illuminating.
Have you tried the same with Opera and Claws? Have you advised BK? Tried any other combinations? Midori may be worth watching to see if they make good on promised radical improvements. Maybe this can be done without bloat, but the runes are oblique.

I spend now some time with Dpup Wheezy. I noticed 01micko post about kernel 3.9.1 and aufs3.9 existence. Too shame. My 3D printer didnt manage to clone me yet alive. Our street is though crowded by my plastic clones. But they dont know how to work with 2 Puppies at the same time.

But....there is new Barry`s Precise Puppy with non-PAE kernel available. It should give people some interest and need for feedback also....

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